{"id":1191,"date":"2005-05-27T20:03:33","date_gmt":"2005-05-28T01:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/2005\/05\/27\/better-than-applescript\/"},"modified":"2005-05-27T20:03:33","modified_gmt":"2005-05-28T01:03:33","slug":"better-than-applescript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/2005\/05\/27\/better-than-applescript\/","title":{"rendered":"Better than AppleScript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had to hack together an AppleScript to batch process a bunch of QuickTime movies.  I had quite a bit of difficulty because of my total unfamiliarity with AppleScript syntax. <\/p>\n<p>Doing some searching I came across the following OSA (Open Scripting Architecture &#8211; the meat and potatoes behind AppleScript) components for languages that I know and like:<\/p>\n<p>Perl: <a title=\"OSA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hmug.org\/man\/3\/Mac::OSA.php\">Mac::OSA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>JavaScript: <a title=\"JavaScript for the Macintosh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latenightsw.com\/freeware\/JavaScriptOSA\/index.html\">JavaScript for the Macintosh<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"O'Reilly Network: JavaScript and Mac OS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/a\/javascript\/2001\/05\/11\/js_for_mac.html?page=3\">O&#8217;Reilly Network: JavaScript and Mac OS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"welcome to osaxen.com | scripting additions archive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.osaxen.com\/\">welcome to osaxen.com | scripting additions archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had to hack together an AppleScript to batch process a bunch of QuickTime movies. I had quite a bit of difficulty because of my total unfamiliarity with AppleScript syntax. Doing some searching I came across the following OSA (Open Scripting Architecture &#8211; the meat and potatoes behind AppleScript) components for languages that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/2005\/05\/27\/better-than-applescript\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Better than AppleScript<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walking-productions.com\/notslop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}